Premio Faenza

The Premio Faenza is an international prize for contemporary ceramic art. It is awarded by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and is the principal Italian prize of its kind.

Premio Faenza
Awarded for	contemporary ceramic art
Date	1938 (1938)
Location	Faenza
Country	Italy
Presented by	Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Winners	Full list of recipients 1938: Pietro Melandri 1939: Pietro Melandri 1941: Emilio Casadio and Carlo Corvi 1942: Giuseppe Mazzullo 1946: Angelo Biancini and Anselmo Bucci 1949: Anselmo Bucci, Guido Gambone ex aequo 1952: Antonio Scordia and Guerrino Tramonti 1953: Salvatore Meli, Carlo Zauli ex aequo 1954: Leoncillo Leonardi 1955: Carlo Negri, Guerrino Tramonti ex aequo 1956: Germano Belletti, Gian Battista Valentini ex aequo 1957: Angelo Biancini 1958: Carlo Zauli 1959: Guido Gambone 1960: Guido Gambone 1961: Gian Battista Valentini 1962: Carlo Zauli 1963: Fulvio Ravaioli, Pompeo Pianezzola ex aequo 1964:Leoncillo Leonardi, Rogier Vandeweghe ex aequo 1965: Berndt Friberg 1966: Wilhelm and Elly Kuch 1967: Eduard Chapallaz 1968: Hilkka Liisa Ahola 1969: Vlastimil Květenský 1970: Goffredo Gaeta, Ivo Sassi ex aequo 1971: Panos Tsolakos 1972: Yasuo Hayashi 1973: Wilhelm and Elly Kuch 1974: Georges Blom 1975: Colin Pearson 1976: Alfonso Leoni, Paul Donhauser ex aequo 1977: Gian Battista Valentini 1978: Mirko Orlandini 1979: Maria Teresa Kuczynska 1980: Guido Mariani 1981: Michel Kuipers 1982: Aki Matsui Toshio 1983: Jo-Anne Caron Devroey, Emidio Galassi ex aequo 1984: Giuseppe Lucietti 1985: Sueharu Fukami 1986: (no award) 1987: Franz Stähler 1989: Enrico Stropparo 1991: Svetlana Nikolaevna Pasechnaya 1993: Tjok Dessauvage, Aldo Rontini ex aequo 1995: Ken Eastman 1997: Michael Cleff 1999: Torbjørn Kvasbø 2001: Ana Cecilia Hillar 2003: Jun Nishida 2005: Silvia Zotta, Tomoko Kawakami ex aequo 2007: Simone Lucietti, Ian Mcdonald ex aequo 2009: Tomonari Kato, Andrea Salvatori ex aequo 2011: Shigeki Hayashi, Eri Dewa, Giovanni Ruggiero ex aequo 2013: Päivi Rintaniemi, Alessandro Neretti 2015: Silvia Celeste Calcagno, Helene Kirchmair, Thomas Stollar ex aequo
Website	micfaenza.org

History

The prize was established in 1931. In 1938 it became an annual national award and was named "Premio Faenza". The first recipient of the Premio Faenza was Pietro Melandri, who also won it in the following year. The award was not made in some years of the Second World War, and recommenced in 1946. In 1963 it became international in scope – although several foreign artists had already been invited to participate in earlier editions – and from 1989 it became a biennial award.

Recipients

Among the recipients of the award are the sculptors Angelo Biancini (1946, 1957), Leoncillo Leonardi (1954, 1964) and Carlo Zauli (1953, 1958 and 1962), and the ceramic artists Sueharu Fukami (1985) and Ken Eastman (1995).